Friday February 18th 2011, First night in S.A.

So I went skydiving.  Huge weight lifted off of my shoulders.  I could already tell from the first few hours how much money would be spent in Cape Town.  I visited the bank and took out a poop load of money.  After a quick change and bite to eat on the ship, we headed back to the port to find a little bar to go to.  Cape Town was packed tonight because U2 was in town to play a concert.   A ton of kids on the ship got tickets to go to it.  I was thinking about getting one simply because it is U2 in S.A. so it’s kind of a big event, but did not feel like spending money on it.  They were playing at the new World Cup stadium which was like a 6 minute walk from where the ship was docked, so everyone going was drinking at the bars right by port. We went to a bar named Mitchell’s which turned out to be our “pre-bar” meet up bar every night for the week.  After that we headed down to Long Street which was a strip of a lot of bars in DT Cape Town.  Reminded me a lot of Chippewa but it was not as fun.  The best part was when Drew was walking down the street and suddenly ran up to some random kid and gave him a hug.  Turns out they were middle school buddies who had not seen each other in a few years.  They had no idea the other one was there and happened to just see each other…in South Africa. Haha small world a little bit.  After long street I hopped in a cab with 2 random SAS girls and we went to some local bar called Assembly.  Hole in the wall place which looked more like a dead end doorway than a bar, but once you stepped inside…whole different story.  I experienced a type of music which I had heard before, but never in a bar or club.  DubStep.  Apparently a big West Coast thing.  It was nuts.  They had DJ’s on a long stage in the front overlooking a large dance area playing this loud electronic beats dance music.  Best I can describe it.  Look it up online.  Everyone was jumping around crazy like they were on ecstasy.  For all I know they were.  I decided to join in and dance with all the Semester at Sea kids in the middle.  One of my friends from the ship is gay and he was there in the middle.  He must have had a few too many beers and began trying to dance with me.  I tried to ignore it at first but then he basically started humping me and getting way to into the music.  Although I was so so so nervous to do it, I could not help to think that this is Semester At Sea, and the time to try something I never thought I would.  I’m kidding…I told him to stop and he proceeded to do so.  That was basically the end of the night for me.  I took a cab back to the ship with Alexa and went to bed late because Aaron had too much and could not find his way back to the room.  For whatever reason he was continuously quoting Rafiki from The Lion King.  But we had shark diving like 2.5 hours later so I kicked him out. Night.